Lawyers and protestors took action: “Nobody’s going to fight alone.”
How to adapt the fictional lessons of the Harry Potter universe to a real-life Voldemort.
How feminist punk bands are igniting the fight against Donald Trump.
North Dakota’s move to put states in charge of reservations is just one example of the possible nonsense to come. The Trump Era will require new strategies.
Tensions are high on the Tohono O’odham Nation, where Border Patrol has proposed high-tech surveillance towers as part of a sophisticated “virtual wall” system.
Laws that caused voter suppression targeted mostly people of color and poor people. But new legislation could fix that.
Never has a modern president so flagrantly violated the Constitution. A constitutional law attorney explains this unprecedented situation in American history—and what we can do about it.
Seven banks—including Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and Citibank—will meet with Standing Rock Sioux leaders after months of intense defund-DAPL pressure.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reportedly has been directed to issue the Dakota Access pipeline easement, even though the environmental review is in the middle of a public comment period.
Original water protector camp resolves to stay—even as Sioux tribe says no and Trump orders pipeline construction.
Now until Feb. 20 is the public’s chance to push for a full review of the pipeline’s climate impacts. Here’s what to do.
When we call ourselves protectors, we cast our role as fulfilling our responsibility to the community that sustains us—not for our personal benefit, but for the benefit of all.
The drama and injustice on display at Standing Rock have taught a new generation of observers what Native Americans already know: Even today, theirs is a brutal fight to survive.
People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. Back home, each tribe faces its own version of the “black snake” and a centuries-old struggle to survive.
America's national parks are overcrowded and underfunded. Would banning cars improve everyone’s experience?
Author George Lakey explains why Scandinavia tops world lists for equality, health, and happiness.
Worker-ownership economics catch on in Ohio, Nevada, and North Carolina.
The Women’s March on Washington illustrated what a wide variety of issues women will have in the years ahead with Donald Trump.
Intrepid journalist and artist Sarah Lazarovic traveled to the Women's March on Washington to march and meet the inspiring people gathered there. And while she was marching, she was drawing.
The large refugee community in Minnesota is a big target for bigotry, and tensions are expected to get worse. But they’ve got a plan.
Opportunities for bridging partisan divides will be rare. Success for Democrats should be defined by laws and appointments denied or delayed.
Inspired by a president they propelled to office, college students have led a successful effort to pressure institutions to divest from fossil fuels.
Issues that impact the womanhood of any one of us—directly or indirectly—impact all of us.
After the inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, what comes next? To make real change, we’ll need to build power where we live.
If the Trump administration is serious about bringing jobs and pride back to rural America, they should take a lesson from cooperatives of the 1930s.
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